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The number of explorers are increasing over time. And, sending them one by one will become more and more arduous.
Thus, I suggest to make a new menu:
- Select one job first: adventures, treasure searches, etc.
- Then select the explorers.
If you just send 1 explorer, the effort stays pretty the same: select 2 times.
If you send a lot of explorers, it will be much easier.
They could use something similar to the new mail system. Have a drop down menu with a list of all the different types of explorers and geologists. After you pick which ones you want to send you can either choose to repeat their last task or pick a new task.
SSSecretSquirrel
23.03.19, 15:33
Whatever option they go with mass sending explorers/geologists doesnt really matter. Its an improvement that should have been in game 5 years ago.
yes... we talked about that in another thread already... but iroginally it was anther topic... good idea maybe to start this as an extra topic
The number of explorers are increasing over time. And, sending them one by one will become more and more arduous.
Thus, I suggest to make a new menu:
- Select one job first: adventures, treasure searches, etc.
- Then select the explorers.
If you just send 1 explorer, the effort stays pretty the same: select 2 times.
If you send a lot of explorers, it will be much easier.
Yeah, been suggested before, still waiting for any action on it
i do like this idea itwould be good if we could group them say all luckys out woody hunting all tavs treasure hunting all yellows and everyone else whatever hunting i defo like this idea of some how sending more than one at a time
cirmoscica
16.06.19, 08:37
+1, i also have many many explorers and sending them a lot of time, please change it.
Arrakkamani
11.07.19, 19:44
This has been suggested in the forums multiple times over the course of last 3 years.
So lets suggest it in 2019 and see how it goes.
Is it possible to add the tick feature that is in mail to the explorers?
Tick them off 1 by 1 selecting all the ones you want to go on a specific search
There is a somewhat similar thing going on with generals when you click send army.
You tick off the ones you want in the adventure. Something like that would...
REALLY BE APPRECIATED if it could be used for explorers.
Sending 40 explorers is a chore.
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TheVictorious
11.07.19, 20:21
+1
I think this is already suggested before, but we need it really now, I understand it is may be difficult to implement, but there should be a way to group them or at least something like panel to select search type, then select how many explorers to send, and should be showing only explorers that available for that search, for time estimation, just like generals, maybe longest one, or somehow show the time near explorer name.
Max_turtle
13.07.19, 09:02
+200
had the same idea but not sure if anybody allready did that
should be an option for geos too
It's good to have some dreams...
Wuselwirbel
20.08.19, 14:17
+1 on the idea. With some having 40+ explorers now, this becomes more and more important! Please listen to us BB!
Wuselwirbel
20.08.19, 14:18
+1 from me as well. Make sending out explorers and geologists easier, please.
+1, this is becoming a priority with all the extra events giving extra explorers and geos
lordloocan
21.08.19, 07:57
Yes please,starting to get RSI from sending them all
would love it but will never happen BB likes we have to multi click hundreds a times a day depending on your searches prob how i got carpal tunnel
Anything that speeds up sending Explorers and Geo's very much gets my approval
ManijakPwner
20.09.19, 09:50
+1
It will be very useful feature
Even if we could send 10 at a time it would be something, seem to recall them saying sending all would lag the system even more
Even if we could send 10 at a time it would be something, seem to recall them saying sending all would lag the system even more
Nope it was opening all explorer finds, obviously they found a way around that.
Send Explorers by order.
Select order - saw only explorers who match with order - then click to those who want to send. fast and simple
been asked for thousands of times by now BB knows it would benefit us and could easily do it even something simple like the send general menu would work but they wont by making the send explorer as tedious as possible it makes you choose between being here for long periods of time so u maximize there return or just get bored and send em out for long periods of time...
Make a group tab. and then put all the explorers that does the same in the same group. Then you can send a group instead of one... with 44 explorers ... it's getting tedious
Thank you for sharing this idea and numerous responses. Looks like a top idea! Thank you for pointing this out. Hopefully I will get some info to share regarding it.
~BB_Malkun
Thank you for sharing this idea and numerous responses. Looks like a top idea! Thank you for pointing this out. Hopefully I will get some info to share regarding it.
~BB_Malkun
wow this has been asked for years
Thejollyone
22.10.19, 12:29
Nice to see an enthusiastic BB who shows they've read the forum ideas :)
TheTristan
25.10.19, 07:12
wouldnt be nice if you would make a menu for all our 45 explorers like that menu we send our gens too addies ? and just click the kind of search and send them all at once out for search (treasure or adventure) by just clicking next to their fotos?
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Count_Dennis
25.10.19, 07:14
Absolutely.
Support 1000%
Mine too!! Would make life sooo much easier and give more time for playing rather than endless clicking
agreed, and how about a working sort order in the same dialog
topgearfan
28.10.19, 21:21
Too little too late.
RinceWinde
30.10.19, 11:40
Don't know why this shows in 'new posts' now, but it's a much desired feature. Would be nice to to see it before Flash dies
Too little too late.
As long as the game is going is never too late. Specially because the late part also been meaning getting more and more explorers :)
I like the first topic idea too, been thinking about that myself for a while. similar like we send generals. It works and a lot less clicks. Also since it's similar might be easier to implement.
The_Sarmatian
03.11.19, 09:32
Title: ONE click to send all explorers out, on re-do assignments.
Story: I log in, then I see all explorers with no task idling in star menu. I click one posh button in star menu "send 'em all out, NAW!". It makes all explorers to go on the same task, which I send them on earlier. I could also send few or all of the explorers manually to change their automatic job assignment.
Result: One click script, for the horde! I mean for the explorers. :)
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canarianpacker
06.11.19, 10:34
Can we not get a check system for Explorers, it takes ages sending them all out individually.
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could i surgest an extra tick box where you approve the task to repeat the given task until a X box is ticked on the pop up of the explorer or geologist where you pay to finish early by paying.
i'm lovin all these explorers, but i am getting to the point where i just cant be bothered to send them or i randomly click on any search just to hurry up!
far too much (very boring) clicking, please fix it bb.
wouldnt be nice if you would make a menu for all our 45 explorers like that menu we send our gens too addies ? and just click the kind of search and send them all at once out for search (treasure or adventure) by just clicking next to their fotos?
Merged
this seems like a very sensible idea
Cheeky-Beet
08.11.19, 08:18
+1
polarbarez
26.11.19, 14:44
Could not agree more...I am an old fart and it is really starting to hurt my wrists having to send out 50 explorers one at a time.
What do they call it..Carple tunnel?
Max_turtle
02.12.19, 13:33
+500
Trigintiljon
15.12.19, 18:47
Make a group tab. and then put all the explorers that does the same in the same group. Then you can send a group instead of one... with 44 explorers ... it's getting tedious
I fully support the whole idea and anything would be better than sending them 1 by 1. But I like this^ suggestion the best.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if we could make a use out of Tavern and have our explorers in there along with a simple way to organize/group them and send them out.
Wuselwirbel
16.01.20, 11:10
+1, esp. to KarstenL's and Trigintiljon's suggestions: groups of explorers (and geo's?) in the tavern.
And to make me perfectly happy, have the generals waiting in the tavern, too instead of all over the island.
BB: If you can't be bothered with making group searches, could you then at the least just make a "stupendously prolonged treasure search" that will take 5 - 10 times as long as a prolonged, but giving a multiple of the prolonged ressources.
If you are really nice you could make a settings element that allows the user to deciede how many times a prolonged search the explorer is to be send.
If you don't log in for 48 hours and the explorer have been going for more than one prolonged search, the loot you get is only the same as for a prolonged search.
As many others I'm getting tired of sending 50+ (53 in my case) every day.
I take it we still have to send them one at a time? I really can't be bothered anymore
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is a general term used to describe the pain felt in muscles, nerves and tendons caused by repetitive movement and overuse.
Thats what i am getting from sending the explorers out
lordloocan
03.04.20, 09:08
Imagine what it is like for those of us who play on more than one server.
Max_turtle
07.04.20, 07:34
u need what to search, who should search and the type of search
Imagine what it is like for those of us who play on more than one server.
Why you think I only play on one server nowadays :p
This could be achieved without changing the existing form windows. Simply use the MS Windows feature of using the mouse to draw a box around a group of icons then go to the next selection screen and choose what to do with them.
Error trapping can be applied so as not to attempt to send out the wrong people for tasks - e.g. an army for a treasure search. Simply remove them from the selected group, don't even need to show a user error.
I would far sooner draw multiple boxes during an event than dread getting even more powerful explorers to send out one by one every hour or two.
BB acknowledged this thread about 6 months ago, let's hope they can do something soon.
As my explorers total has passed 40. its getting really tedious sending them all during events. There has to be a better way!.
Please Please make a way to send explorers away, even if we have to tick them like sending generals.
Still no change? Still can't be bothered, it can't be that hard to do this!
Mannerheim
17.06.20, 14:12
Still no change? Still can't be bothered, it can't be that hard to do this!
https://forum.tsotesting.com/threads/23478-repeat-the-task-for-the-scouts?p=52466&viewfull=1#post52466
it takes 1-2 minutes to send all your explorers out
why not skill them up and then send them on the longest searches if you can't spare 2-10 minutes a day for this task?
Thejollyone
17.06.20, 19:51
it takes 1-2 minutes to send all your explorers out
why not skill them up and then send them on the longest searches if you can't spare 2-10 minutes a day for this task?
not when you got 50 explorers.... Takes about 5-10 mins each time, and with them all skilled, thats more than once a day, and even more during events... just saying
it takes 1-2 minutes to send all your explorers out
why not skill them up and then send them on the longest searches if you can't spare 2-10 minutes a day for this task?
try when you have over 80 and during events you want the short to med searches as they pay out the most event resources...the request is long over due and wouldnt be that hard to code .
not when you got 50 explorers.... Takes about 5-10 mins each time, and with them all skilled, thats more than once a day, and even more during events... just saying
It's got to the point i would pay gems to have the ability like prem to mass send them
would be nice after all those clicks and moving mouse around
don't get me y'all wrong, it's a nice feature to have, but wont that turn it into an automation thingy rather then player action?
what'll be the next one to ask for? turn explorers into production items. set them up for what feature you'd like and then bb will drop the outcome when timer hits zero?
if you'd like the best outcome you should be putting the effort in achieving it as well
i might be the only one but i'll give a -1 to this one
this (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LMDlrruCADIf8yZLOOAxJSA70HMaOR9AZ2CxPqB0M3U/edit?usp=sharing) is what i'm playing with atm
it takes 1-2 minutes to send all your explorers out
why not skill them up and then send them on the longest searches if you can't spare 2-10 minutes a day for this task?
How long have you been playing? It's tedious and hurts my eyes and fingers doing it over 50 times in a row, it's also boring, how can you possibly want to do this even once a day?
It's got to the point i would pay gems to have the ability like prem to mass send them
So would I, I've normally got prem on
lordloocan
19.06.20, 21:54
RSI time again on monday then?
How long have you been playing? It's tedious and hurts my eyes and fingers doing it over 50 times in a row, it's also boring, how can you possibly want to do this even once a day?
a little bit over 400 days, every day. been ok so far, ish :)
Max_turtle
20.06.20, 19:21
i read an idea - select explorers - than set a task - and let them loop till you change the task
with multi select it would be awsome
Select a task -> select all explorers that can do it -> send.
There are click games and mobile games out there if clicking is your thing...
After missing out yet another send out of pages of explorers yesterday simply because I could not face it yet again, I had a thought, well really two. The other was depressing concerning the thread on the discrimination that BB continues to believe to be acceptable regarding the treatment of different servers! ( For the record BB IT IS NOT ! )
This more positive thought was, in my view easier to implement in keeping with the game. Create expeditions for explorers. Yes I know `expeditions ' are already used in another context in the game, but I'm sure someone can come up with another name, I'm not going to do all BB development work, and a group of explorers is a better use of the term than used to describe pvpoo :cool::p
The expedition would allow all explorers of type and skill set to be grouped into one clickable icon and then sent out on one type of search with one click. The rewards of that search will just be just a multiplication of the number of explorers in that expedition. The number of explorers can be shown as a small digit within the icon. There maybe some work on whether the loot is random amongst that number or all the same, or even a different loot table for expeditions, but for now its a thought to get away from all this mindless clicking which is reaching ( all ready there in my case ) monotonous levels.
lordloocan
08.12.20, 12:34
90 explorers x 4 clicks per sending each explorer = 360 clicks = very boring and aimless, I rarely send them out at all now between events which devalues the time and effort that went into gathering them.
LeaderOfCastle
08.12.20, 14:58
We need one simple checkbox. If checked; automatically send to last search. Simple solution.
Mannerheim
08.12.20, 14:59
They have to redo the UI in the Unity version so I'm pretty sure this will be improved at the same time or shortly after.
Max_turtle
10.12.20, 06:45
your faith in gods ear Mannerheim :D
Pleas fix this... THIS alone is making me lose intrest in the game. To grind is OK, but sending out 4 lines of explores ONE by ONE. Latly I most days dont! And my games is slowing right up, just as 2020 did!
amen!!!
its overdue to get that option implemented.
It's a great pleasure to send explorers one by one. This way you can get acquainted with them and get to know their personality. :) Build some personal relationship. :)
Gekke-Gerrit
20.01.21, 10:03
Don't think the idea will work because of the same problem as they had with free moving of buildings.
It uses lots of data and the servers don't like that.
Ohh yes please - it takes 4 mouse clicks to sent one - we all end up having trouble with our mouse hands as it is now.
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